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    1. that cannot speak, they bring him, and entreat Bel so that he may speak, as though he were able to understand


    2. 20 Whereas your servant works truly, entreat him not evil


    3. 5 If he who is only flesh nourish hatred, who will entreat for pardon of his sins?


    4. repent of it, and you entreat for the same again


    5. 31 If you have a servant, entreat him as a brother, for you have need of him, as of your own soul, if you entreat him evil, and he run


    6. forty days, and having besought many things and wept, 15 he said: Lord, I entreat you to reveal to me what I shall do concerning this


    7. 23 And during the forty days did Moses entreat the Lord in behalf of the children of Israel, and the Lord listened to the prayer of Moses, and the Lord was entreated of him in behalf of Israel


    8. And having so said, He commands His angels that we be thrown out of paradise; And as we were being driven along, and were lamenting, your father Adam entreated the angels, saying, Allow me a little, that I may entreat God, and that He may have compassion on me, and pity me, for I only have sinned; And they stopped driving him; And Adam cried out with weeping, saying, Pardon me, Lord, what I have done; Then says the Lord to His angels, Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradisee It is not that the sin is my, or that I have judged ill? Then the angels, falling to the ground, worshipped the Lord, saying, Just you are, Lord, and you judge what is right; And turning to Adam, the Lord said, I will not permit you from now on to be in paradise; And Adam answered and said, Lord, give me of the tree of life, that I may eat before I am throw out; Then the Lord said to Adam, you shall not now take of it, for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turns to guard it on account of you, that you may not taste of it and be free from death forever, but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you; But when you are gone out of paradise, if you shall keep yourself from all evil, as being destined to die, I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes, and then there shall be given you of the tree of life, and you shall be free from death forever; And having so said, the Lord commanded us to be thrown out of paradise


    9. 16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God: 17 Where you diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me


    10. 23 And during the forty days did Moses entreat the Lord in behalf of the children of Israel and the Lord listened to the prayer of Moses and the Lord was entreated of him in behalf of Israel

    11. And having so said He commands His angels that we be thrown out of paradise; And as we were being driven along and were lamenting your father Adam entreated the angels saying Allow me a little that I may entreat God and that He may have compassion on me and pity me for I only have sinned; And they stopped driving him; And Adam cried out with weeping saying Pardon me Lord what I have done; Then says the Lord to His angels Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradisee It is not that the sin is my or that I have judged ill? Then the angels falling to the ground worshipped the Lord saying Just you are Lord and you judge what is right; And turning to Adam the Lord said I will not permit you from now on to be in paradise; And Adam answered and said Lord give me of the tree of life that I may eat before I am throw out; Then the Lord said to Adam you shall not now take of it for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword which turns to guard it on account of you that you may not taste of it and be free from death forever but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you; But when you are gone out of paradise if you shall keep yourself from all evil as being destined to die I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes and then there shall be given you of the tree of life and you shall be free from death forever; And having so said the Lord commanded us to be thrown out of paradise


    12. Baruch said and how does this happen? And the angel said listen the Lord God made three hundred and sixty rivers of which the chief of 8 all are Alphias Abyrus and the Gericus; and because of these the sea does not sink; And I said I pray you show me which is the tree which led Adam astray; And the angel said to me It is the vine which the angel Sammael planted whereat the Lord God was angry and He cursed him and his plant while also on this account He did not permit Adam to touch it and therefore 9 the devil being envious deceived him through his vine; And I Baruch said Since also the vine has been the cause of such great evil and is under judgment of the curse of God and was the 10 destruction of the first created how is it now so useful? And the angel said You ask rightly; When God caused the deluge on Earth and destroyed all flesh and four hundred and nine thousand Giants and the water rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains then the water entered into paradise and destroyed every flower; but it removed wholly without the bounds the shoot 11 of the vine and cast it outside; And when the Earth appeared out of the water and Noah came out 12 of the Ark he began to plant of the plants which he found; But he found also the shoot of the vine; and he took it and was reasoning in himself What then is it? And I came and spoke to 13 him the things concerning it; And he said Shall I plant it or what shall I do? Since Adam was destroyed because of it let me not also meet with the anger of God because of it; And saying 14 these things he prayed that God would reveal to him what he should do concerning it; And when he had completed the prayer which lasted forty days and having besought many things and wept 15 he said: Lord I entreat you to reveal to me what I shall do concerning this plant; But God sent his angel Sarasael and said to him Arise Noah and plant the shoot of the vine for So says the Lord ; Its bitterness shall be changed into sweetness and its curse shall become a blessing and that which is produced from it shall become the blood of God; and as through it the human race obtained condemnation so again through Jesus Christ the Immanuel will they receive in Him the 16 upward calling and the entry into Paradise


    13. Now we entreat that we may depart from them; And Michael said to the angels Wait till I learn from the Lord what shall come to pass


    14. Edna also said to Tobias The Lord of Heaven restore you my dear brother and grant that I may see your children of my daughter Sara before I die that I may rejoice before the Lord: See I commit my daughter to you of special trust; where are do not entreat her evil


    15. 17 In consideration of these things Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John the son of Accos and Jason the son of Eleazar and sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them 18 And to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude


    16. 16 And when you stand before him be not afraid in your heart but show to him according to your word; and he will entreat you well


    17. 3 But now tell me therefore you are fled from them and are come to us for you are come for safeguard; be of good comfort you shall live this night and hereafter: 4 For none shall hurt you but entreat you well as they do the servants of king Nabuchodonosor my Lord


    18. 15 And after that Jesus set apart from his disciples other seventy and sent them two and two before his face to every region and city where he was purposing to go; And he said to them The harvest is abundant and the labourers are few: entreat now the Lord of the harvest that he send out labourers into his harvest


    19. Wherefore remove grief from you and crush not the Holy Spirit which dwells in you lest he entreat God against you and he withdraw from you


    20. If then we entreat the Lord to forgive us we ought also ourselves to forgive; for we are before the eyes of our Lord and God and “we must all appear at the Judgment-Seat of Christ and everyone must give an account of himself”

    21. 3 For almost two weeks this anxious father, a minor official of Herod Antipas, had wandered about through the western borders of Philip's domains, seeking Jesus that he might entreat him to cure this afflicted son


    22. When his father heard of his resentment of the welcome of his younger brother, he went out to entreat him


    23. Now, if anyone who reads this paper is tempted in this fashion, I entreat him for Christ's sake to be firm, to play the man, and resist the temptation


    24. And, as I ask you not to be surprised at the temptation to leave Christ, so also I entreat you not to be shaken by it


    25. I entreat them to consider that the difficulties of unbelief are far greater than the difficulties of faith


    26. (a) In conclusion, I entreat everyone who reads this paper to ask himself whether he is going away from Christ, like the Jews, or clinging boldly to Christ, like Peter


    27. (b) But, next to having no religion at all, I entreat every reader of this paper to beware of a religion in which Christ has not His rightful place


    28. I entreat him to read the Bible, and make it his only test of truth and error, right and wrong


    29. Let me earnestly entreat all whom I address today to turn from the black clouds in his horizon, to look at the blue sky, and to be thankful


    30. by terror at what he saw, he began to entreat Krishn most humbly to for-

    31. His expression of displeasure at the spiritual character, and of scorn for the scholarship, of all who hold a different belief than his own, we must not turn aside to characterize—further than to entreat his reconsideration of much unfitting language


    32. But she sat perfectly still in his grasp, and only said, in a low voice, "I entreat you, good gentlemen, do not come near us, do not speak, do not move!"


    33. "Entreat me to believe it no more, Miss Manette


    34. "I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you


    35. It will be arranged between them how they are to inform each other of their good or evil fortunes, and the princess will entreat him to make his absence as short as possible, which he will promise to do with many oaths; once more he kisses her hands, and takes his leave in such grief that he is well-nigh ready to die


    36. And if my good intentions deserve to be acknowledged with any kind of courtesy, I entreat you, senor, by that which I perceive you possess in so high a degree, and likewise conjure you by whatever you love or have loved best in life, to tell me who you are and the cause that has brought you to live or die in these solitudes like a brute beast, dwelling among them in a manner so foreign to your condition as your garb and appearance show


    37. "Be not uneasy, friend Sancho," said the barber, "for we will entreat your master, and advise him, even urging it upon him as a case of conscience, to become an emperor and not an archbishop, because it will be easier for him as he is more valiant than lettered


    38. If it be, sirs, that you are here with the same design as others have come wah, before you proceed with your wise arguments, I entreat you to hear the story of my countless misfortunes, for perhaps when you have heard it you will spare yourselves the trouble you would take in offering consolation to grief that is beyond the reach of it


    39. Before reading it I asked the man who it was that had given it to him, and how long he had been upon the road; he told me that as he happened to be passing through one of the streets of the city at the hour of noon, a very beautiful lady called to him from a window, and with tears in her eyes said to him hurriedly, 'Brother, if you are, as you seem to be, a Christian, for the love of God I entreat you to have this letter despatched without a moment's delay to the place and person named in the address, all which is well known, and by this you will render a great service to our Lord; and that you may be at no inconvenience in doing so take what is in this handkerchief;' and said he, 'with this she threw me a handkerchief out of the window in which were tied up a hundred reals and this gold ring which I bring here together with the letter I have given you


    40. And as we have this consolation springing from no very visionary hope or wild fancy, I entreat you, senora, to form new resolutions in your better mind, as I mean to do in mine, preparing yourself to look forward to happier fortunes; for I swear to you by the faith of a gentleman and a Christian not to desert you until I see you in possession of Don

    41. All that Camilla could do was to entreat Leonela to say nothing about her doings to him whom she called her lover, and to conduct her own affairs secretly lest they should come to the knowledge of Anselmo or of Lothario


    42. For God's sake I entreat of thee, for thine own I implore thee, let not this open manifestation rouse thy anger; but rather so calm it as to allow these two lovers to live in peace and quiet without any


    43. What I entreat of you is that you reproach me not with my transgression and grievous wrong-doing; for the same cause and force that drove me to make you mine impelled me to struggle against being yours; and to prove this, turn and look at the eyes of the now happy Luscinda, and you will see in them an excuse for all my errors: and as she has found and gained the object of her desires, and I have found in you what satisfies all my wishes, may she live in peace and


    44. Entreat her that she be pleased to show thee how thou canst execute the command she gives thee, for she will, such is her goodness


    45. At this hole the two demi-damsels posted themselves, and observed Don Quixote on his horse, leaning on his pike and from time to time sending forth such deep and doleful sighs, that he seemed to pluck up his soul by the roots with each of them; and they could hear him, too, saying in a soft, tender, loving tone, "Oh my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, perfection of all beauty, summit and crown of discretion, treasure house of grace, depositary of virtue, and finally, ideal of all that is good, honourable, and delectable in this world! What is thy grace doing now? Art thou, perchance, mindful of thy enslaved knight who of his own free will hath exposed himself to so great perils, and all to serve thee? Give me tidings of her, oh luminary of the three faces! Perhaps at this moment, envious of hers, thou art regarding her, either as she paces to and fro some gallery of her sumptuous palaces, or leans over some balcony, meditating how, whilst preserving her purity and greatness, she may mitigate the tortures this wretched heart of mine endures for her sake, what glory should recompense my sufferings, what repose my toil, and lastly what death my life, and what reward my services? And thou, oh sun, that art now doubtless harnessing thy steeds in haste to rise betimes and come forth to see my lady; when thou seest her I entreat of thee to salute her on my behalf: but have a care, when thou shalt see her and salute her, that thou kiss not her face; for I shall be more jealous of thee than thou wert of that light-footed ingrate that made thee sweat and run so on the plains of Thessaly, or on the banks of the Peneus (for I do not exactly recollect where it was thou didst run on that occasion) in thy jealousy and love


    46. Don Quixote was comforted by the prophecy he heard, for he at once comprehended its meaning perfectly, and perceived it was promised to him that he should see himself united in holy and lawful matrimony with his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso, from whose blessed womb should proceed the whelps, his sons, to the eternal glory of La Mancha; and being thoroughly and firmly persuaded of this, he lifted up his voice, and with a deep sigh exclaimed, "Oh thou, whoever thou art, who hast foretold me so much good, I implore of thee that on my part thou entreat that sage enchanter who takes charge of my interests, that he leave me not to perish in this captivity in which they are now carrying me away, ere I see fulfilled promises so joyful and incomparable as those which have been now made me; for, let this but come to pass, and I shall glory in the pains of my prison, find comfort in these chains wherewith they bind me, and regard this bed whereon they stretch me, not as a hard battle-field, but as a soft and happy nuptial couch; and touching the consolation of Sancho Panza, my squire, I rely upon his goodness and rectitude that he will not desert me in good or evil fortune; for if, by his ill luck or mine, it may not happen to be in my power to give him the island I have promised, or any equivalent for it, at least his wages shall not be lost; for in my will, which is already made, I have declared the sum that shall be paid to him, measured, not by his many faithful services, but by the means at my disposal


    47. "Hush, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and don't interrupt the bachelor, whom I entreat to go on and tell all that is said about me in this history


    48. "Why, to be sure I am!" returned the now unnosed squire; "Tom Cecial I am, gossip and friend Sancho Panza; and I'll tell you presently the means and tricks and falsehoods by which I have been brought here; but in the meantime, beg and entreat of your master not to touch, maltreat, wound, or slay the Knight of the Mirrors whom he has at his feet; because, beyond all dispute, it is the rash and ill-advised bachelor Samson Carrasco, our fellow townsman


    49. Basilio opened his eyes and gazing fixedly at her, said, "O Quiteria, why hast thou turned compassionate at a moment when thy compassion will serve as a dagger to rob me of life, for I have not now the strength left either to bear the happiness thou givest me in accepting me as thine, or to suppress the pain that is rapidly drawing the dread shadow of death over my eyes? What I entreat of thee, O thou fatal star to me, is that the hand thou demandest of me and wouldst give me, be not given out of complaisance or to deceive me afresh, but that thou confess and declare that without any constraint upon thy will thou givest it to me as to thy lawful husband; for it is not meet that thou shouldst trifle with me at such a moment as this, or have recourse to falsehoods with one who has dealt so truly by thee


    50. incomparable beauty I entreat thee to listen to them, for they but ask thee not to refuse me thy favour and protection now that I stand in such need of them





































    1. 6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them


    2. 28And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and entreated


    3. "Be careful--oh, be careful," entreated the little man


    4. How is it then, you have not entreated Me?! And when I came to you, why did you not sit at My feet to listen?


    5. His mother followed him and entreated Shri Maharaj


    6. So the Lord was entreated for the land,


    7. God of his fathers, 13 And prayed to him, and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to


    8. 19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all


    9. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth


    10. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body

    11. 7 For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother's womb, that he might root out, and afflict,


    12. For the Lord has pronounced against us all these evils that are come on us, and we have not entreated


    13. 6 Because if a man be prospered in his beginnings and shamefully entreated in his old age, he forgets all the


    14. 7 And again, if a man is shamefully entreated in his beginnings, and at his end is prospered, he remembers not


    15. 47 But with Alexander they were well pleased, because he was the first that entreated of true peace with


    16. the king entreated him as his predecessors had done before, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends, 27 And confirmed him in


    17. entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably, and received the letters, in which declaration was made of the league and


    18. “He entreated the Romans, as his brethren in Christ, by the mercies of God,


    19. having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains


    20. that dwelt there had testified that the Scythopolitans dealt lovingly with them, and entreated them kindly in the time of their adversity;

    21. Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish to him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that


    22. 43 He then spread his hands and prayed with a fervent heart, and with much weeping, and entreated God to deliver him from their hands


    23. 8 And the Lord heard the prayer of Isaac the son of Abraham, and the Lord was entreated of him and Rebecca his wife conceived


    24. 29 And the inhabitants of Bibentu heard of his fame and they were greatly afraid of him, and they went out to meet him with weeping and supplication, and the inhabitants of Bibentu entreated of Angeas not to kill them nor destroy their city; and he did so, for Bibentu was in those days reckoned as one of the cities of the children of Chittim; therefore he did not destroy the city


    25. 32 When their God came to Abimelech in the dream of night and terrified him in order that he might restore to Abraham Sarah whom he had taken, and afterward all the people of Gerar were punished on account of Sarah, and Abraham prayed to his God for them, and he was entreated of him, and he healed them


    26. 36 And they requested of him to supplicate for them, and he prayed to the Lord for them, and the Lord was entreated of him and he healed them


    27. 23 And during the forty days did Moses entreat the Lord in behalf of the children of Israel, and the Lord listened to the prayer of Moses, and the Lord was entreated of him in behalf of Israel


    28. After they went out out of paradise, Adam took Eve his wife, and went up into the east; And he remained there eighteen years and two months; and Eve conceived and brought out two sons, Diaphotus called Cain, and Amilabes called Abel; And after this, Adam and Eve were with one another; and when they lay down, Eve said to Adam her Lord: My Lord, I have seen in a dream this night the blood of my son Amilabes, who is called Abel, thrown into the mouth of Cain his brother, and he drank it without pity; And he entreated him to grant him a little of it, but he did not listen to him, but drank it all up; and it did not remain in his belly, but came out out of his mouth; And Adam said to Eve: Let us arise, and go and see what has happened to them, lest perchance the enemy should be in any way warring against them


    29. And having so said, He commands His angels that we be thrown out of paradise; And as we were being driven along, and were lamenting, your father Adam entreated the angels, saying, Allow me a little, that I may entreat God, and that He may have compassion on me, and pity me, for I only have sinned; And they stopped driving him; And Adam cried out with weeping, saying, Pardon me, Lord, what I have done; Then says the Lord to His angels, Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradisee It is not that the sin is my, or that I have judged ill? Then the angels, falling to the ground, worshipped the Lord, saying, Just you are, Lord, and you judge what is right; And turning to Adam, the Lord said, I will not permit you from now on to be in paradise; And Adam answered and said, Lord, give me of the tree of life, that I may eat before I am throw out; Then the Lord said to Adam, you shall not now take of it, for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turns to guard it on account of you, that you may not taste of it and be free from death forever, but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you; But when you are gone out of paradise, if you shall keep yourself from all evil, as being destined to die, I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes, and then there shall be given you of the tree of life, and you shall be free from death forever; And having so said, the Lord commanded us to be thrown out of paradise


    30. 22 And Moses returned to the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast you so evil entreated this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

    31. so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?


    32. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen,


    33. 43 He then spread his hands and prayed with a fervent heart and with much weeping and entreated God to deliver him from their hands


    34. 8 And the Lord heard the prayer of Isaac the son of Abraham and the Lord was entreated of him and Rebecca his wife conceived


    35. 29 And the inhabitants of Bibentu heard of his fame and they were greatly afraid of him and they went out to meet him with weeping and supplication and the inhabitants of Bibentu entreated of Angeas not to kill them nor destroy their city; and he did so for Bibentu was in those days reckoned as one of the cities of the children of Chittim; therefore he did not destroy the city


    36. 32 When their God came to Abimelech in the dream of night and terrified him in order that he might restore to Abraham Sarah whom he had taken and afterward all the people of Gerar were punished on account of Sarah and Abraham prayed to his God for them and he was entreated of him and he healed them


    37. 36 And they requested of him to supplicate for them and he prayed to the Lord for them and the Lord was entreated of him and he healed them


    38. 23 And during the forty days did Moses entreat the Lord in behalf of the children of Israel and the Lord listened to the prayer of Moses and the Lord was entreated of him in behalf of Israel


    39. After they went out out of paradise Adam took Eve his wife and went up into the east; And he remained there eighteen years and two months; and Eve conceived and brought out two sons Diaphotus called Cain and Amilabes called Abel; And after this Adam and Eve were with one another; and when they lay down Eve said to Adam her Lord: My Lord I have seen in a dream this night the blood of my son Amilabes who is called Abel thrown into the mouth of Cain his brother and he drank it without pity; And he entreated him to grant him a little of it but he did not listen to him but drank it all up; and it did not remain in his belly but came out out of his mouth; And Adam said to Eve: Let us arise and go and see what has happened to them lest perchance the enemy should be in any way warring against them


    40. And having so said He commands His angels that we be thrown out of paradise; And as we were being driven along and were lamenting your father Adam entreated the angels saying Allow me a little that I may entreat God and that He may have compassion on me and pity me for I only have sinned; And they stopped driving him; And Adam cried out with weeping saying Pardon me Lord what I have done; Then says the Lord to His angels Why have you stopped driving Adam out of paradisee It is not that the sin is my or that I have judged ill? Then the angels falling to the ground worshipped the Lord saying Just you are Lord and you judge what is right; And turning to Adam the Lord said I will not permit you from now on to be in paradise; And Adam answered and said Lord give me of the tree of life that I may eat before I am throw out; Then the Lord said to Adam you shall not now take of it for it has been assigned to the cherubim and the flaming sword which turns to guard it on account of you that you may not taste of it and be free from death forever but that you may have the war which the enemy has set in you; But when you are gone out of paradise if you shall keep yourself from all evil as being destined to die I will again raise you up when the resurrection comes and then there shall be given you of the tree of life and you shall be free from death forever; And having so said the Lord commanded us to be thrown out of paradise

    41. 14 But as for us? woe to us who also are now shamefully entreated and at that time look forward (only) to evils


    42. 6 Because if a man be prospered in his beginnings and shamefully entreated in his old age he forgets all the prosperity that he had


    43. 7 And again if a man is shamefully entreated in his beginnings and at his end is prospered he remembers not again his evil treatment


    44. 47 But with Alexander they were well pleased because he was the first that entreated of true peace with them and they were confederate with him always


    45. 25 And though certain ungodly men of the people had made complaints against him 26 Yet the king entreated him as his predecessors had done before and promoted him in the sight of all his friends 27 And confirmed him in the high priesthood and in all the honours that he had before and gave him pre-eminence among his chief friends


    46. 8 At which time Onias entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably and received the letters in which declaration was made of the league and friendship


    47. 28 So the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously as he entreated other men so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains


    48. 28 But when Judas and his company had called on Almighty God who with his power breaks the strength of his enemies they won the city and killed twenty and five thousand of them that were within 29 From then they departed to Scythopolis which lies six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem 30 But when the Jews that dwelt there had testified that the Scythopolitans dealt lovingly with them and entreated them kindly in the time of their adversity; 31 They gave them thanks desiring them to be friendly still to them and so they came to Jerusalem the feast of the weeks approaching


    49. 30 Notwithstanding when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish to him and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wanting perceiving that such sour behaviour came not of good he gathered together not a few of his men and withdrew himself from Nicanor


    50. When therefore Juzanes the king's son and Tertia his mother and Mygdonia and Markia had become believers but were not yet thought worthy of baptism they took it exceedingly ill that the blessed one had been shut up; And having come to the prison and given much money to the jailor they went in to him; And he seeing them was glad and glorified the Lord and blessed them; And they entreated and begged the seal in the Lord a beautiful young man having appeared to them in a dream and ordered the apostle into the house of Juzanes














































    1. How have you treated them, while entreating Me?


    2. entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy on those who now lay at the Gates of Hades


    3. 1 As for Seth, when he was seven years old, he knew good and evil, and was consistent in fasting and praying, and spent all his nights in entreating God for mercy and forgiveness


    4. 1 As for Seth when he was seven years old he knew good and evil and was consistent in fasting and praying and spent all his nights in entreating God for mercy and forgiveness


    5. 50 Nevertheless when they reflected on the succour before granted them from Heaven they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts and 51 sent up an exceeding great cry entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself and have mercy on those who now lay at the Gates of Hades


    6. Secondly Grieving the Holy Spirit he works iniquity neither entreating the Lord nor confessing to Him


    7. And being pricked at heart by the Holy Spirit they fell at his feet entreating and saying: We beseech you father give us that garment; for we believe in the living and true God whom you proclaimest


    8. entreating, imploring, begging that fate be kind this once,


    9. His eyes were entreating with a look that


    10. Though this was not all, for once settled he began to write a letter on the thin-slated wood tablets with ink and stylus that he had brought in with the maps; writing to his father, entreating Uthyr to support him in the coming Pictish wars

    11. After all, I thought, if she does not love me I will not change this by entreating her


    12. charities and to stave off the hordes of religious fanatics entreating


    13. Down, and up, and head foremost on the steps of the building; now, on his knees; now, on his feet; now, on his back; dragged, and struck at, and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his face by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always entreating and beseeching for mercy; now full of vehement agony of action, with a small clear space about him as the people drew one another back that they might see; now, a log of dead wood drawn through a forest of legs; he was hauled to the nearest street corner where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go--as a cat might have done to a mouse--and silently and composedly looked at him while they made ready, and while he besought her: the women passionately screeching at him all the time, and the men sternly calling out to have him killed with grass in his mouth


    14. " The landlord, seeing his guest at his feet and hearing a speech of this kind, stood staring at him in bewilderment, not knowing what to do or say, and entreating him to rise, but all to no purpose until he had agreed to grant the boon demanded of him


    15. "Sir," answered Don Quixote, "that cannot be on any account omitted, and the knight-errant would be disgraced who acted otherwise: for it is usual and customary in knight-errantry that the knight-errant, who on engaging in any great feat of arms has his lady before him, should turn his eyes towards her softly and lovingly, as though with them entreating her to favour and protect him in the hazardous venture he is about to undertake, and even though no one hear him, he is bound to say certain words between his teeth, commending himself to her with all his heart, and of this we have innumerable instances in the histories


    16. Don Quixote, when he heard the lament and learned the cause, consoled Sancho with the best arguments he could, entreating him to be patient, and promising to give him a letter of exchange ordering three out of five ass-colts that he had at home to be given to him


    17. spell-bound, and in the end love-smitten, as you will see in the course of the story of my misfortune; and to inflame still further his passion, which he hid from me and revealed to Heaven alone, it so happened that one day he found a note of hers entreating me to demand her of her father in marriage, so delicate, so modest, and so tender, that on reading it he told me that in Luscinda alone were combined all the charms of beauty and understanding that were distributed among all the other women in the world


    18. Leonela took her up in her arms and laid her on the bed, entreating Lothario to go in quest of some one to attend to her wound in secret, and at the same time asking his advice and opinion as to what they should say to Anselmo about his lady's wound if he should chance to return before it was healed


    19. But now Don Fernando's friends, as well as the curate and the barber, who had been present all the while, not forgetting the worthy Sancho Panza, ran forward and gathered round Don Fernando, entreating him to have regard for the tears of Dorothea, and not suffer her reasonable hopes to be disappointed, since, as they firmly believed, what she said was but the truth; and bidding him observe that it was not, as it might seem, by accident, but by a special disposition of Providence that they had all met in a place where no one could have expected a meeting


    20. This graduate, after some years of confinement, took it into his head that he was sane and in his full senses, and under this impression wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the misery in which he was living; for by God's mercy he had now recovered his lost reason, though his relations, in order to enjoy his property, kept him there, and, in spite of the truth, would make him out to be mad until his dying day

    21. They found Don Vicente in the arms of his servants, whom he was entreating in a broken feeble voice to leave him there to die, as the pain of his wounds would not suffer him to go any farther


    22. And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entreating them to


    23. He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to release her locks, entreating him not to hurt her that once


    24. himself, for he was always entreating her to cut it off


    25. What has been my history, that I should be at the pains of entreating either them or you not to have it so! You made your own snares


    26. Entreating Herbert to tell me how he had come to my rescue,—which at first he had flatly refused to do, but had insisted on my remaining quiet,—I learnt that I had in my hurry dropped the letter, open, in our chambers, where he, coming home to bring with him Startop whom he had met in the street on his way to me, found it, very soon after I was gone


    27. That I had a fever and was avoided, that I suffered greatly, that I often lost my reason, that the time seemed interminable, that I confounded impossible existences with my own identity; that I was a brick in the house-wall, and yet entreating to be released from the giddy place where the builders had set me; that I was a steel beam of a vast engine, clashing and whirling over a gulf, and yet that I implored in my own person to have the engine stopped, and my part in it hammered off; that I passed through these phases of disease, I know of my own


    28. entreating you to keep your promise on that score


    29. "There is a providence; there is a God," said Monte Cristo, "of whom you are a striking proof, as you lie in utter despair, denying him, while I stand before you, rich, happy, safe and entreating that God in whom you endeavor not to believe, while in your heart you still believe in him


    30. "I will tell you, Morrel," said the count, "that I do not need entreating to spare the life of M

    31. In the stages of exhaustion, its back legs trailing behind its flattened rump as though paralyzed: a rabbit that stared, white-eyed, from one side to the other, seeing nothing, yet finding no respite from its fear, and then fell to licking wretchedly at one ripped and bloody ear that drooped across its face: a rabbit that suddenly cried and wailed as though entreating the Thousand to come from every quarter to rid it of a misery too terrible to be borne


    32. He was proceeding then amazingly to push it to a third triumph, still without uncasing, if a tenderness, natural to true love, had not inspired me with self-denial enough to spare, and not over-strain him: and accordingly, entreating him to give himself and me quarter, I obtained, at length, a short suspension of arms,


    33. She was unpleasantly conscious that she had been on the verge of speaking as "one of the foolish women speaketh"—telling first and entreating silence after


    34. The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagration, entreating him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were


    35. Not only were huge sums offered for the horses and carts, but on the previous evening and early in the morning of the first of September, orderlies and servants sent by wounded officers came to the Rostovs’ and wounded men dragged themselves there from the Rostovs’ and from neighboring houses where they were accommodated, entreating the servants to try to get them a lift out of Moscow


    36. He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to release her looks, entreating him not to hurt her that once


    37. Soon I heard him earnestly entreating me to be composed


    38. Fairfax, entreating information on the subject


    39. Here Fanny, who could not but listen, involuntarily shook her head, and Crawford was instantly by her side again, entreating to know her meaning; and as Edmund perceived, by his drawing in a chair, and sitting down close by her, that it was to be a very thorough attack, that looks and undertones were to be well tried, he sank as quietly as possible into a corner, turned his back, and took up a newspaper, very sincerely wishing that dear little Fanny might be persuaded into explaining away that shake of the head to the satisfaction of her ardent lover; and as earnestly trying to bury every sound of the business from himself in murmurs of his own, over the various advertisements of “A most desirable Estate in South Wales”; “To Parents and Guardians”; and a “Capital season’d Hunter


    40. Here Fanny, who could not but listen, involuntarily shook her head, and Crawford was instantly by her side again, entreating to know her meaning; and as Edmund perceived, by his drawing in a chair, and sitting down close by her, that it was to be a very thorough attack, that looks and undertones were to be well tried, he sank as quietly as possible into a corner, turned his back, and took up a newspaper, very sincerely wishing that dear little Fanny might be persuaded into explaining away that shake of the head to the satisfaction of her ardent lover; and as earnestly trying to bury every sound of the business from himself in murmurs of his own, over the various advertisements of "A most desirable Estate in South Wales"; "To Parents and Guardians"; and a "Capital season'd Hunter

    41. The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him


    42. for which he was entreating her


    43. They were discussing or disputing about something, or one voice was persuading, or entreating, while the other was refusing or protesting


    44. Yes, indeed, he was asking charity ! Could he imagine she would consent ? Yet he had humbled himself to put it to the test ; ho had tried entreating her ! This depth of spiritual degradation was insufferable to watch


    45. At last I drew back the curtain and began entreating him to put her on the bed


    46. Fetyukovitch flew to him in hot haste entreating him to keep quiet, and at the same instant pounced on Alyosha


    47. He was persistently entreating her to wait for a carriage; the old man was alarmed and almost in tears


    48. Three or four minutes passed by, while Velchaninoff heard the rapid interchange of whispers going on, and an occasional rather louder sound of Liza's voice, apparently entreating her father to leave her alone—so Velchaninoff concluded


    49. He was alarmed at Virginsky's coming in, and as soon as the latter began speaking he waved him off from under the bedclothes, entreating him to let him alone


    50. To Virginsky's direct question, "Should they go or not?" he began suddenly waving his hands again, entreating him to let him alone, and saying that it was not his business, and that he knew nothing about it







    1. he most humbly entreats Krishn to enlighten him on that which brings


    2. So he entreats Krishn to


    3. But of all I saw and observed down there, what gave me most pain was, that while Montesinos was speaking to me, one of the two companions of the hapless Dulcinea approached me on one without my having seen her coming, and with tears in her eyes said to me, in a low, agitated voice, 'My lady Dulcinea del Toboso kisses your worship's hands, and entreats you to do her the favour of letting her know how you are; and, being in great need, she also entreats your worship as earnestly as she can to be so good as to lend her half a dozen reals, or as much as you may have about you, on this new dimity petticoat that I have here; and she promises to repay them very speedily


    4. And suddenly now, when he's going to be married for the third time, he imagines that this is a breach of some sort of parental duty to me, and entreats me a thousand miles away not to be angry and to allow him to


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    Synonyms for "entreat"

    adjure beseech bid conjure entreat press appeal request seek beg desire ask

    "entreat" definitions

    ask for or request earnestly